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Alstroemeria: Beautiful Cut Flower, Aggressive Garden Thug

Alstroemeria spreads via brittle rhizomes, invading under walls and paving, smothering ferns and hydrangeas. It's especially rampant in moist shade. In hot sun it dies back summer, then explodes in fall. Enjoy in vases; banish from beds.

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